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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
Europe and the riches of Asia. It was a farm-based, subsistence economy with a small export trade in grains, tobacco, and salted fish and limited manufacturing. In 1800, the US census, which excluded Native Americans, counted the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
government no longer needed Yamato’s help. Soon after visiting the Tohoku area and seeing the devastation, Kigawa felt it was time to give back to an area that had previously boosted his business with the delivery of fish and agricultural... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
help competing firms avoid the perils of cutthroat competition on one hand and price-fixing collusion on the other. The government can thus help them achieve the balance of healthy competition that is vital to sustained prosperity. Consider the commercial View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
sailed back to South America and there was a celebration. But when Shackleton and his men returned to England no one seemed interested in polar exploration, in the Endurance expedition, nor in the incredible story of survival that Shackleton and his crew had to tell.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
said, “your combative comment to the guy who ate fish was really stupid.” “Stupid” stood out, coming from Doug, but it was accurate. Doug went on to argue, convincingly, that allowing the fish eater to claim... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
allocation of resources was difficult. There was also the past legacy of vertical and horizontal integration, which left Unilever owning considerable parts of the value chain. Its trawlers caught the fish that was eventually sold in its... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
service-based economy, the convergence of industry boundaries, and the knowledge revolution. GE is the headhunters' favorite fishing hole. Out of that has come another project. The big change that is going on now—and what's behind the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
small fish in a huge, huge ocean. You won’t get into any of the accelerators. It's just too bro-ville." But Tuchman was determined to do business in Miami. “In San Francisco and New York you’re a small fish... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
voters know who the big fish are. That is why when there are fewer audit firms there could be a greater concern on the firms' part about such political costs." Good For The Industry? There is a potential danger in this approach,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
economic terms,” Gompers says. The higher returns could be due to one of several explanations, he says. For starters, since women face such a disadvantage in being hired in the first place, it is possible that those who do are exceptionally well qualified. “You are... View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
A Decade of Democratic Decline and Stagnation
By: Laura Jakli, M. Steven Fish and Jason Wittenberg
Jakli, Laura, M. Steven Fish, and Jason Wittenberg. "A Decade of Democratic Decline and Stagnation." Chap. 18 in Democratization. 2nd Edition by Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald Inglehart, and Christian Welzel. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
one time we didn't have markets for fish in the sea or trees in the woods: there were few of us and many of them, and it didn't matter which of us owned them. That's not true anymore, so we have markets for View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led to a ruling by a US... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
industry. The story of forester Ben Cone Jr. is a touchstone for ESA critics. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 29 red-cockaded woodpeckers, an endangered species, living on Cone's North Carolina land. Acting under the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
areas like mental health care, dairy farmer subsidies, and the fishing industry, Cai says. “Things that maybe we're not as familiar with. Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne